In my studio practice I attempt to create sensual experiences from which nothing is learned and lack resolution; this thesis is an attempt to find ways to outline these experiences. However, this attempt will eventually lead to something entirely different, for these experiences are undefinable and impossible to investigate. I will try to show how the components of the work, rather than forming a direct link to a chain of thoughts or associations, summon an experience that is derived only from the encounter itself.

La thèse s'intéresse à l'enregistrement des propriétés de la biodiversité dans les archives sédimentaires. Elle s'appuie sur l'analyse d'une faune contemporaine de milieu tropical, collectée dans le Lagon de Touho, Nouvelle-Calédonie lors de l'expédition Montrouzier en 1993. Les différences de diversité entre les assemblages de bivalves vivants et de coquilles mortes d'un même site sont quantifiées à l'aide de plusieurs descripteurs (richesse taxonomique, indice PIE d'eveness, courbes de raréfactions, indices de fidélité) et d'outils de classification (analyses Cluster, NMDS). Les associations d'espèces vivantes varient dans l'espace en fonction de paramètres environnementaux comme le type du substrat ou la profondeur. La composition des assemblages morts diffère des écosystèmes vivants, mais ils conservent globalement les informations environnementales. Les assemblages morts sont en général plus diversifiés que les communautés vivantes associées, à cause de l'accumulation de nombreuses espèces rares. Cet enrichissement s'explique par : 1) la préservation des coquilles autochtones, 2) l'apport de coquilles allochtones et 3) la condensation du temps. Des différences de fidélité entre les communautés biologiques et les assemblages de coquilles mortes apparaissent en fonction des environnements. Par exemple, les environnements à substrat induré sont associés à une mauvaise préservation des communautés vivantes, contrairement aux environnements profonds qui conservent bien les espèces autochtones mais accumulent beaucoup d'espèces allochtones. / The thesis explores how the properties of biodiversity are preserved in the sedimentary archives. Discussions are supported by the analysis of the modern tropical fauna of the Touho Lagoon (New Caledonia), collected during the Montrouzier expedition in 1993. The differences between live bivalve assemblages and dead shell assemblages are quantified with various indices (taxonomic richness, PIE index of evenness, rarefaction curves, fidelity indices) and classification tools (Cluster analyses, NMDS).Environmental parameters, such as the type of substrate or the water-depth, are responsible for variations among live species associations. The composition of dead shell assemblages differs from the living communities but environmental informations arepreserved. Generally, the dead shell assemblages are more diversified than live fauna of the same sites because of the accumulation of rare species. The higher diversity of dead shell assemblages can be explained by 1) the preservation of autochthonous bivalve shells, 2) the input of allochthonous shells and 3) the time-averaging. The fidelity of dead shell assemblages to the biological communities varies according to the environmental conditions. For example, dead shell assemblages found on hard substrate environments may be very different from the living communities. Allochthonous species tend to accumulate in deep outer shelf environments... Salinity, substrate or water-depth are main perturbation factors, as they imply loss or gain of taxa.The preservation of living communities varies according to the biological caracteristics, such as ecology, population structure or shells mineralogy.

This study aims to describe and analyze changes over time in the degree of relative crowding in preschools within the urban area of a medium-sized city in the northern part of Sweden – and does so by examining the size of the available open space per child. Further, this work explores the spatial variation of open space dimensioning in relation to the urban center in order to decide whether shrinking of children’s open space should be considered to be limited to the major metropolitan areas of Sweden. With the basis in an assumption of increasing competition over land as a consequence of neoliberal governance and densification as strategies to promote urban growth, it’s hypothesized from recent literature that these ambitions increasingly risk confining children’s right to adequate areas of open space for outdoor play. Using a combination of quantitative approaches of analysis, with the use of regression analysis the study concluded that the coefficient of the independent variable Building age is positive, and therefore matches the expected direction. However, no statistically significant linear relationship was observed even with the use of relevant variables – highlighting a complex relationship surrounding the understanding and prediction of land use in general and urban open space in particular. A comparison of mean values using grouping based on both the aspect of time and centrality found that preschools built after 1998 generally contains 0,85 m2 larger open space per child than those built before 1987, whereas preschools within the urban center had 6,18 m2 larger open space per child than those located in more peripheral locations. When controlling for the share of preschools that undercuts and exceeds the recommendations related to dimensioning of open space communicated by the Swedish National Board of Housing, Building and Planning, units within the city center was found to meet these recommendations to a greater extent. Preschools built after 1998 seem to be more prevalent among units that undercuts the said recommendations. The results call for further research within this field of study in order to determine whether or not children’s shrinking open space can be limited to be a phenomenon encompassing solely major metropolitan areas.

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1986 H864 / Master of Science / Grain Science and Industry

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1986 M57 / Master of Science / Human Nutrition

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1986 P57 / Master of Science / Animal Sciences and Industry

The unique cultural techniques of the historic building trades of New Orleans are currently at risk of being lost due to a lack of new master craftsmen and the demise of the current generation of master craftsmen. The purpose of this study is twofold: to analyze the historic transmission of the trades in New Orleans through the lens of workforce development and to inventory and analyze current programs that teach the trades. Analysis of historic training in the trades and best practices in workforce development inform an assessment of the strengths of current programs and their ability to enhance the supply of master craftsmen. Additional analysis of workforce development practices and programmatic strengths combine to illustrate room introducing career pathways and intermediaries into the current system of training. This system of training in New Orleans is fragmented and insufficient to truly enhance supply; however, programmatic strengths present opportunities for improvement.

As large-scale, modernist urban renewal projects advanced following World War II, residents of Boston’s historic neighborhoods pushed back, asserting the value of the existing built environment and enlisting new strategies, like local historic districts, to mediate change. Over time, these defenders of traditional urbanism changed from relatively conventional 1950s home- and business-owners to more countercultural, back-to-the-city technocrats, the advance guard of a new middle class. Employing previously unexplored government archives and public documents, extensive contemporaneous newspaper reports, and interviews with current and former neighborhood activists, “Home Rule” analyzes historic districting as a social movement, tracing how adherents of this cause mobilized resources to effect the policy changes they sought. While the growth of the historic preservation movement in the interwar South has been well documented, the adoption of preservation planning techniques in the post-war North is less well studied. The first chapter investigates the effort to create the first historic district in the urban North on Beacon Hill, a campaign that took place against the backdrop of a destructive urban-renewal project in the nearby West End. A neighborhood association spearheaded the effort, carefully building support, consistent with the consensus culture of the 1950s. The chapter also examines the expansion of the district and challenges to its authority. The highly contested movement to designate the Back Bay occupies the second chapter, pitting a powerful mayor and his deep-pocketed allies determined to insert high-rise towers in a historically low-rise area against a large and well-heeled neighborhood association. The third chapter examines the drive to create a statutory Landmarks Commission to regulate historic resources citywide. The chapter also explores two attempts to designate historic districts after the creation of the new agency, one effort on Ashmont Hill that failed and another in West Back Bay that succeeded. The movement to designate three contiguous historic districts – the St. Botolph Street area, Bay Village, and the South End – constitutes the fourth and last chapter. These efforts exemplify the rediscovery of urban life by an educated, progressive middle class who negotiated with various ethnic and racial minorities, transformed the city, and reinvented urban renewal. / 2018-08-11T00:00:00Z

Esta dissertação de mestrado versa sobre as oficinas ferroviárias, adotando-se como caso de estudo as \"Officinas Companhia Mogyana\", da Companhia Mogiana de Estradas de Ferro e Navegação, estabelecidas em Campinas, São Paulo, no início do século XX. A discussão proposta insere-se no campo de estudo do patrimônio industrial e visa contribuir para o reconhecimento, a análise e, em última instância, a preservação de remanescentes da arquitetura ferroviária paulista. O recorte temporal adotado, entre os anos de 1897 e 1908, corresponde ao período de concepção das idéias, do projeto e da execução das oficinas, com a implantação gradual de suas diversas edificações, conformando no pátio ferroviário central de Campinas um verdadeiro complexo industrial destinado ao funcionamento daquela ferrovia. Utilizando fontes documentais diversas, buscou-se investigar as diretrizes internacionalmente difundidas à época para a construção de oficinas ferroviárias, bem como a reinterpretação dessas para a realidade brasileira. Por meio do estudo das \"Officinas Companhia Mogyana\", foi possível averiguar a repercussão desses preceitos na determinação da planta industrial estabelecida pela companhia, especificamente em relação às decisões projetuais e de partido. Além disso, utilizando-se de documentos institucionais da Mogiana, mormente os relatórios da diretoria, e de visitas de campo, buscou-se analisar as diversas edificações componentes do conjunto usina geradora, seção de locomotivas, seção de carros e vagões, fundição e rotunda sob a perspectiva de sua funcionalidade e operacionalidade, como também da técnica construtiva empregada, dos arranjos formais e composições estilísticas e das transformações por que passaram ao longo de sua existência. As discussões promovidas intentam vislumbrar outras possibilidades de estudo das edificações ferroviárias, entendendo-as também como complexo produtivo e, conseqüentemente, espaço de trabalho. / This dissertation is about railway workshops, based on a case study entitled \"Officinas Companhia Mogyana\" [Mogiana Railway Workshops] of the Mogiana Railway and Navigation Company, which was established in the city of Campinas, Brazil, in the early 20th century. This discussion is classified as a study in industrial heritage and is intended as a contribution toward the recognition, analysis and, most importantly, the preservation of what remains of the railway\'s architecture in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. The period of conception of the ideas, design and construction of the workshops, with the gradual implementation of its many different buildings, extended from 1897 to 1908, and created a veritable industrial complex at its central yards in Campinas, out of which the entire railway operated. Using several different documentary sources, the dissertation represents an investigation into guidelines that were internationally recognized during the period when the workshops were constructed, and also shows how these guidelines were adapted in terms of Brazilian reality. By studying the \"Officinas Companhia Mogyana\", it became possible to verify the repercussion of these standards in determining the industrial plant that the company built, specifically in relation to the decisions concerning the designs and concepts. In addition, based on institutional documents of the Mogiana Company itself, especially reports issued by the senior management, and field visits, the author seeks to analyze the various components of the complex such as the generator, the locomotive section, the freight and passenger cars section, the foundry and the roundhouse from the perspective of their functionality and operationality. The construction techniques used, the formal arrangements and stylistic compositions, and the changes implanted during its existence are also described. The resulting discussions bring up other possibilities for studying the railroad buildings, also seen as a production complex and, consequently, a workplace.

Guaxupé é uma cidade do interior de Minas Gerais que teve seu inicio na primeira metade do século XlX e seu apogeu no inicio do século XX com a chegada da ferrovia. Antes da cultura do café, a cidade, assim como todos os núcleos urbanos recém instalados, era muito pobre e seu casario feito com a técnica tradicional do período colonial, a taipa, onde se utilizavam os materiais e conhecimentos disponíveis na região. Com o transporte ferroviário, este quadro se altera totalmente. A produção de café tem maior facilidade de chegar ao porto de Santos e também, através da ferrovia, receber material importado da Europa para ser utilizado nas novas residências que passavam por uma nova roupagem, ou seja, adaptaram-se ao novo estilo, o ecletismo. Dando sustentação a esta revolução, estão os imigrantes, principalmente italianos, que traziam as novidades do velho continente e colocavam a cidade dentro da modernidade da época. Muito das construções deste período, inicio do século XX, ainda resistem ao tempo e ao desenvolvimento do século XXl e estão sob o olhar atento de pessoas que lutam pela sua preservação, como aquelas envolvidas nas ações do Conselho do Patrimônio Histórico de Guaxupé. A intenção deste trabalho é apresentar estas ações como forma de contribuir para a discussão em torno do tema da preservação no País. / Guaxupé is a city in the countryside of the state of Minas Gerais. It had its beginning in the first half of the 19th Century, and achieved its climax in the early part of the 20th Century with the arrival of the train tracks. Before the advent of coffee crop agriculture, the city, as well as all other urban nuclei established in the region, was very poor, and its architecture reflected only a traditional technique of the Brazilian colonial period named taipa, where only knowledge and materials available in the local region were used. With the train tracks, this scenario changed completely. Not only could the coffee crop production more easily reach the port of Santos to be exported, but also foreign construction material from Europe could be imported into the region through the cargo trains. This imported material could now be used in new residences, and also in old ones which then assumed a new dressing, adapting therefore to a new style named ecletismo. Supporting this revolution were the immigrants, primarily Italians, who would bring novelties from the Old World, setting the city within the then modern thought of that era. Many of the buildings from that period (beginning of the 20th Century) still stand today, resisting time and development pressures of the 21st Century, and survive under close scrutiny of people concerned with their preservation. Some of these people are involved in the actions of the local Historical Estate Council of Guaxupé. This thesis aims at presenting such actions as a form of contribution to the national discussion on the theme of Building Preservation.